Copyright trolls operate on a precarious edge.They have to find enough people willing to fall for their threat settlement letters to be profitable, while at the same time not causing enough of a stir to be noticed by the general public or risk backlash. Quite often, copyright trolls do indeed cross this line. It‘s not all that often, however, that they cross it in spectacular fashion.

Yet that appears to be exactly what they‘ve done in Finland, where so many internet account holders have been sent threat letters that both local law enforcement groups and the national government have been forced to respond.